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The Abduction of Sita
• R. K. Narayan
• LITERATURE
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Narayan's version of the Hindu epic of the struggle of Rama (with the help of the brave moneky Hanuman) to get the Princess Sita back from the evil lord Ravana.
(IDA335, $8.95)
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The Adventures of Amir Hamza
• Musharraf Ali Farooqi
• LITERATURE
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A deft new translation of the rip-roaring tales of the storied life and fabulous exploits of the Prophet Mohammad's uncle Hamza and his heroic encounters with emperors, merchants, viziers, courtesans, warriors and magical beings.
(IDA391, $45.00)
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Age of Shiva
• Manil Suri
• LITERATURE
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(IDA393, $24.95)
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The Ajanta Caves, Ancient Paintings of Buddhist India
• Benoy Behl
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A clear, beautifully photographed overview of the ancient murals and paintings of the life of Buddha carved into a hillside in western India.
(IDA316, $34.95)
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Along the Ganges
• Ilija Trojanow
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this colorful travelogue, Trojanow follows the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas to the cities that it feeds, using the holy river as a means to ponder Hinduism, culture, ecology and the tension between ancient and modern India.
(IDA294, $19.95)
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Ancient Futures, Learning from Ladakh
• Dalai Lama
• Peter Matthiessen
• Helena Norberg-Hodge
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Norberg-Hodge documents her community work and changes from traditional ways of life; she has lived and worked in Ladakh since 1975.
(HML24, $16.95)
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An Area of Darkness
• V.S. Naipaul
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A reflective, personal account of Naipaul's travels in India in 1962 -- a portrait of a time and place and searing, honest chronicle of the country during transition.
(IDA13, $14.95)
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The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
• J.C. Harle
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A scholarly survey of the art and architecture of not only India but also of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
(IDA60, $37.00)
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The Art of the Imperial Cholas
• Vidya Dehijia
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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(IDA104, $41.50)
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The Asia Book, A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent
• China Williams
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Covering every country in Asia and the Middle-East, this swoon-worthy collection offers pages of bright full color photographs, shedding light on the peoples and cultures of each nation. Also includes fact-filled profiles and a historical background for each country.
(ASA64, $40.00)
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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One of the great works of modern Indian literature, reissued in 2001. It's at once the story of Chaudhuri's youth in rural Bengal and Calcutta and the story of modern India's origins; a masterpiece steeped in time and place.
(IDA196, $19.95)
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
• Zahiruddin Babur Shah
• Salman Rushdie
• Wheeler M. Thackson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The candid memoir of the first Moghul emperor of India (universally known as Babur), descended from Tamerlane.
(CAS149, $17.95)
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Banaras
• Diana L. Eck
• HISTORY
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This history of the holiest and oldest of Indian cities, the home of Shiva, encompasses many millennia of Buddhist and especially Hindu practices along the Ganges.
(IDA211, $28.50)
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Baumgartner's Bombay
• Anita Desai
• LITERATURE
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The tale of Hugo Baumgartner, a Jewish businessman who flees to India to escape persecution.
(IDA245, $13.00)
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Beneath a Marble Sky, A Love Story
• John Shors
• LITERATURE
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Built to mourn the tragic death of the emperor's wife, the Taj Mahal is at the center of this murderous, fantastical and dazzling tale, told from the point of view of daughter Princess Jaharana. Shors conjures life in 18th-century Hindustan and its royalty.
(IDA301, $14.00)
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Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City
• Ravi Kalia
• HISTORY
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A scholarly analysis of the building of the new capital of the Indian state of Orissa.
(IDA135, $45.00)
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The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives, An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History
• Alan Turner
• Mauricio Anton
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A thoroughly researched guide to modern felines and their ancestors.
(BST50, $26.95)
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Blue Guide Southern India
• George Michell
• GUIDEBOOK
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The usual comprehensive Blue Guide treatment of the art and culture of South India, with 90 maps and site plans.
(IDA94, $25.95)
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Born Into Brothels
• Zana Briski
• Children of Calcutta
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A companion to the award-winning documentary of the same name, this charming book displays the beautiful photography of eight children growing up in Calcutta's red light district.
(IDA269, $35.00)
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A Brief History of India
• Judith E. Walsh
• HISTORY
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A Brief History of India offers an accessible, reliable introduction to this vast nation admired for its spiritual traditions, its peaceful struggle for independence led by Mahatma Gandhi, and its vibrant culture.
(IDA394, $19.95)
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Buddha
• Karen Armstrong
• RELIGION
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A concise, thought-provoking biography of the Buddha in the Penguin Lives series, written by one of the foremost experts on world religions.
(REL09, $14.00)
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Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All
• Perry Garfinkel
• RELIGION
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A spiritual travelogue that scours the globe for the both the roots and world-wide extensions of Buddhism.
(REL30, $13.95)
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Buddhism, A Concise Introduction
• Huston Smith
• Philip Novak
• RELIGION
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A brief yet illuminating overview, discussing Theravada and other South Asian traditions in the first half and then Western traditions in the second.
(ASA41, $12.95)
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Calcutta Map
• Bharat Graphics
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(IDA155, $6.95)
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The Camphor Flame, Popular Hinduism and Society in India
• C.J. Fuller
• RELIGION
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A comprehensive study of contemporary Hinduism and Indian society.
(IDA90, $24.95)
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The Child and the State in India
• Myron Weiner
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A thought-provoking no-nonsense evaluation of education and child labor in India.
(IDA40, $27.95)
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City of Joy
• Dominique La Pierre
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An epic of love, heroism, and hope set among the dispossessed, and those who have sacrificed all to help them, in the slums of Calcutta.
(IDA25, $7.99)
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The Clash Within, Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future
• Martha C. Nussbaum
• HISTORY
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(IDA399, $29.95)
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The Complete Taj Mahal
• Ebba Koch
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Ebba Koch, an expert on Mughal architecture, is the only scholar who has been allowed to take measurements of the Taj Mahal. This is her impressive academic and photographic tribute to the magnificent structure.
(IDA332, $75.00)
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A Concise History of Modern India
• Barbara Daly Metcalf
• Thomas Metcalf
• HISTORY
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This brief history, organized chronologically, weaves together the political, social, economic and cultural history of India from the sultans, mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society through the end of the 20th century. Updated with a new chapter on the 1990s and an epilogue that includes the Congress victory of 2004 and the rise of India's high-tech industry.
(IDA378, $24.99)
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Conflict Unending
• Sumit Ganguly
• HISTORY
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An in-depth study of the turbulent relationship between India and Pakistan since independence in 1947, with a focus on Kashmir.
(IDA223, $27.00)
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Cracking India, a Novel
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• R.W. Scholes
• LITERATURE
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The observant tale of an Indian girl in Lahore from ages four to eight.
(IDA229, $15.95)
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Customs & Etiquette of India Customs and Etiquette of India
• Venika Kingsland
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A brief introduction to customs and etiquette in India.
(IDA352, $6.95)
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The Customs of the Kingdoms of India
• Marco Polo
• LITERATURE
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These pages from Marco Polo's Travels focus on his extravagant recollection of the far-flung kingdoms of the Indian Ocean.
(IDA370, $10.00)
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The Dancing Girl
• Hasan Shah
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The realistically rendered tale of love for a dancing girl who entertained the British Army in colonial India, originally written in 1790.
(IDA61, $9.95)
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Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India
• Diana L. Eck
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A fascinating and rigorous guide to deciphering Hindu symbolism, this book will help you understand and appreciate religious art in India. Despite its scholarly paraphernalia and language, the book is extremely useful for the traveler.
(IDA75, $22.00)
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Daughter of the Ganges, The Story of One Girl's Adoption and her Return Journey to India
• Asha Miro
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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(IDA299, $24.00)
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The Day of the Scorpion
• Paul Scott
• LITERATURE
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Volume two of Scott's rousing, psychologically complex Raj Quartet.
(IDA321, $20.00)
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The Death of Vishnu, A Novel
• Manil Suri
• LITERATURE
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A vibrant, richly drawn debut novel, set in a colorful apartment house in the author's native Bombay.
(IDA197, $14.95)
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Deep River
• Shusaku Endo
• LITERATURE
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(JPN159, $13.95)
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Delhi Map
• Bharat Graphics
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(IDA150, $6.95)
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Dharma's Daughters: Contemporary Indian Women and Hindu Culture
• Sara Mitter
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An insightful, many-layered social history of women in the author's adoptive India.
(IDA38, $22.95)
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Divining the Deccan
• Bill Aitken
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In this absorbing account of his travels, Aitken writes winningly of the history, geography and culture of the plateau country of southwest India.
(IDA231, $29.95)
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A Division of Spoils
• Paul Scott
• LITERATURE
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The final volume in Scott's rousing, psychologically complex Raj Quartet.
(IDA323, $20.00)
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Eastern India Map
• Nelles
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A detailed regional map of eastern India, from just east of Delhi through all of Nepal, at a scale of 1:1,500,000.
(IDA123, $10.95)
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
• Elizabeth Gilbert
• LITERATURE
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Gilbert chronicles in luminous prose a year-long odyssey not just to escape from an ugly divorce but also to discover the world and herself. The book, like her quest, is in three parts: Rome (eat), Mumbai (pray) and Bali (where she falls in love).
(TVL107, $15.00)
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Eating India, An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices
• Chitrita Banerji
• FOOD
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Award-winning food writer and Bengali food expert Banerjii takes readers on a marvelous journey through the traditions, origins and ingredients of Indian cuisine.
(IDA375, $24.95)
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The Elephanta Suite
• Paul Theroux
• LITERATURE
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In each of these interconnected novellas, an unwitting visitor to India is transformed by the experience in unexpected ways.
(IDA382, $14.95)
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The Enchantress of Florence
• Salman Rushdie
• LITERATURE
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Rushdie conjures life in Renaissance Florence and the Mughal Empire with humor and vivid detail in this bawdy, improbable tale.
(ITL948, $26.00)
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Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
• Diana L. Eck
• RELIGION
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With its wide geographic and spiritual scope, and combination of the personal and scholarly, this book is a fascinating introduction to religion, and the author.
(IDA78, $20.00)
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The End of a Trail, The Cheetah in India
• Divyabhanusinh Chavda
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A historical study of the cheetah in India, where it is now extinct.
(IDA140, $75.00)
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Engaging India, Diplomacy Democracy And the Bomb
• Strobe Talbott
• HISTORY
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This absorbing political memoir goes behind the scenes of the lengthy negotiations between the US and India in the wake of India's development of a nuclear bomb. Talbott, the former Deputy Secretary of State, was President Clinton's go-to man for the diplomatic procedings.
(IDA387, $19.95)
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Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life, Hindus and Muslims in India
• Ashutosh Varshney
• HISTORY
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An assessment of current relationships between Hindus and Muslims in India.
(IDA235, $19.95)
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Eyewitness Guide India
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handsome, beautifully illustrated guide to India. It features color photographs, history and plenty of background information.
(IDA265, $30.00)
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Family Matters
• Rohinton Mistry
• LITERATURE
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An aging professor comes to live with his daughter, her husband and their two children in a cramped Bombay apartment in Mistry's moving, and often comic, tale of history, memory and familial bonds.
(IDA214, $15.95)
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The Far Pavilions
• M. M. Kaye
• LITERATURE
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A tale of love, adventure and war set during the British Raj in India, culimating with the Indian Mutiny and the Second Afghan War.
(IDA195, $19.95)
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Fasting, Feasting
• Anita Desai
• LITERATURE
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A well-constructed and deeply disturbing story of a sister and brother in a middle-class Indian family. Dull Uma is constrained to live at home and totally controlled by her parents, whereas bright Arun is helped to achieve academically and goes abroad to America. An eye-opening view into cultural differences and the Indian experience at home and abroad.
(IDA172, $13.95)
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Father India, Westerners Under the Spell of an Ancient Culture
• Jeffrey Paine
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A very interesting book that explores the fascination that India has exerted on writers, politicians and other vistors.
(IDA165, $14.95)
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The Feast of Roses
• Indu Sundaresan
• LITERATURE
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Sundaresan continues the gripping tale of the ever more powerful Princess Jahanara in this lushly detailed sequel to The Twentieth Wife.
(IDA306, $15.00)
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A Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent
• Krys Kazmierczak
• Ber Van Perlo
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact field guide to 1,300 species.
(FG40, $45.00)
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First Under Heaven, The Art of Asia
• Hali Publications
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The fourth Hali Annual, a showcase of textiles and decorative arts throughout Asia
(ASA19, $78.00)
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Flashman and the Mountain of Light
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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In this 9th installment in the rollicking, meticulously researched series the sardonic Flashman is off to the Punjab for more lechery, cowardice and aggrandizement in the service of Her Majesty.
(IDA291, $15.00)
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Flashman in the Great Game
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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What caused the Sepoy Mutiny, a pivotal moment in the Raj? How about Harry Flashman, the reluctant, much-decorated coward, cad and womanizer at the center of George MacDonald Fraser's wildly entertaining, irreverent series of historical novels.
(CAS120, $15.00)
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Fodor's Exploring India
• Fiona Dunlop
• GUIDEBOOK
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With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this book is an excellent overview of India and its attractions for visitors.
(IDA365, $22.00)
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Fodor's India
• Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(IDA388, $23.95)
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Folktales From India
• A.K. Ramanujan
• LITERATURE
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A wonderful collection of tradition tales.
(IDA288, $18.00)
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Footprint Goa Handbook
• Annie Dare
• GUIDEBOOK
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A sturdy guide in the practical Footprint series with background information on the history and culture of Goa.
(IDA266, $19.95)
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Footprint India Handbook
• Robert Bradnock
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive gudie to India with practical travel detail on where to go and what to do.
(IDA138, $29.95)
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Footprint Northeast India
• David Stott
• GUIDEBOOK
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Northeast India is a region off the usual tourist route, yet it contains some of the country's beautiful scenery, remarkable religious monuments and vibrant cultural centres. This guide takes you to the Orissan temples of Puri, Bhubaneswar and Konark, the interior of Bihar and Jharkhand, and the mighty peaks of the Himalaya to the north.
(IDA539, $23.95)
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Footprint South India
• Robert Bradnock
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the popular British series.
(IDA237, $22.95)
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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
• Christopher Bayly
• Timothy Harper
• HISTORY
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A gripping history of Britains WWII campaigns in India, Burma and Malaysia by two Cambridge University historians.
(ASA45, $29.95)
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The Foundations of Buddhism
• Rupert Gethin
• RELIGION
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A lively, authoritative survey of the origins, common ideas and heritage of Buddhism.
(REL21, $29.95)
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Freedom Song
• Amit Chaudhuri
• LITERATURE
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This three-novella volume contains Chaudhuri's finest work to date -- in particular "A Strange and Sublime Address," his evocation of childhood in Calcutta.
(IDA217, $14.00)
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Frommer's India
• Pippa de Bruyn
• Keith Bain
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to India with excellent coverage of attractions and travel details, as well as a foldout, full-color map.
(IDA342, $24.99)
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Full Tilt, From Dublin to Delhi with a Bicycle
• Dervla Murphy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The indomitable Dervla Murphy's first book, a captivating account of her solo journey across Europe to Iran, Afghanistan, and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India.
(IDA324, $15.95)
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Funny Boy
• Shyam Selvadurai
• LITERATURE
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Building a complex portrait through detail of family, society and place, this prize-winning novel is a gay coming of age story set in contemporary Sri Lanka. Splendidly written.
(SRL01, $14.00)
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Gandhi
• Catherine Clement
• Ruth Sharman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A pocket-size biography, jammed with illustrations.
(IDA203, $12.95)
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Gandhi, 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition
• Richard Attenborough
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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(IDA402, $19.94)
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Gandhi, His Life and Message for the World
• Louis Fischer
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A classic biography of Gandhi, still one of the most readable, lively, and interesting books on the subject.
(IDA162, $7.99)
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Gandhi, Prisoner of Hope
• Judith Brown
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A comprehensive study and ecellent biography of the complex life of India's most famous figure; Brown has interesting insights into Gandhi's political strategies and general persona.
(IDA226, $23.00)
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Ganga, A Journey Down the Ganges River
• Julian C. Hollick
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Hollick deftly weaves natural and social history in this anecdotal account of a journey from the Himalayan source of the Ganges to the sea.
(IDA381, $25.95)
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The Ganges
• Raghubir Singh
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An engrossing collection of photographs from the renowned Indian photographer, following the river from its headwaters high in the Himalayas to its mouth at the Bay of Bengal.
(IDA367, $29.95)
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Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk
• Susan T. Hitchcock
• John Esposito
• Desmond Tutu
• Mpho Tutu
• RELIGION
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A handsomely photgraphed tour of the five major world religions and the places that each one holds most sacred.
(REL05, $24.00)
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The Glass Palace
• Amitav Ghosh
• LITERATURE
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An epic novel of war, love and history in Burma, India and Malaysia, following the lives and fortunes of one family over three generations.
(IDA173, $14.95)
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Govind Narayan's Mumbai
• Govind Narayan
• HISTORY
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Narayan (1815-1865) describes Mumbai's daily life, its people and its institutions in this classic account of the city in the 19th century.
(IDA532, $80.00)
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The Guide
• R. K. Narayan
• LITERATURE
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A comic look at the life of a rogue, set in Malgudi, a fictional town in southern India like many of Narayan's novels. Originally published in 1958.
(IDA310, $14.00)
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A Guide to the Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives
• Richard Grimmett
• Carol Inskipp
• Tim Inskipp
• FIELD GUIDE
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Beautiful, comprehensive and up-to-date, this is the definitive field guide to birds from Bhutan to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. It covers 1300 species, and weighs 5 pounds. With 150 color plates and a detailed map for each species.
(FG31, $132.00)
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H.M.S. Surprise
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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The third in O'Brian's celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series finds Jack Aubrey in India.
(IDA236, $13.95)
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Heat and Dust
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• LITERATURE
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Evocatively set in 1920s India, this Booker Prize-winning short novel centers around an Anglo-Indian romance, tackling with precision issues of class, colonialism and propriety.
(IDA239, $13.95)
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Henri Cartier-Bresson in India
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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(IDA295, $29.95)
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Hindoo Holiday, An Indian Journal
• J.R. Ackerly
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Ackerly traipses across India as the English tutor to a handsome and extravagantly homosexual maharajah in this comic, beautifully turned-out novel masquerading as a travelogue.
(IDA115, $14.00)
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Hindu Art
• T. Richard Blurton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully large paperback of excellent quality, this book is a good introduction to the complexities of Indian painting, sculpture and sacred architecture.
(IDA35, $33.00)
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Hinduism, A Cultural Perspective
• David R. Kinsley
• RELIGION
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In this well-regarded overview of the Hindu religious traditions, a popular text, Kinsley effectively conveys the essence of the Hindu vision of reality.
(IDA354, $58.40)
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Hinduism, A Very Short Introduction
• Kim Knott
• RELIGION
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An introduction to the beliefs and practice of Hinduism, and a consideration of its influence in India and around the world.
(IDA329, $11.95)
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The Holder of the World
• Bharati Mukherjee
• LITERATURE
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A daring novel of ideas, travel and history. Mukherjee interweaves the story of a modern American researcher with the travels of her 17th-century ancestor who roamed through Mughal India.
(IDA190, $13.95)
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Holy Cow, An Indian Adventure
• Sarah Macdonald
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A memoir of two years spent in India from an Australian radio correspondent who is particularly attuned to the cultural riches and peculiarities of the country.
(IDA297, $14.95)
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How to Change the World, Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
• David Bornstein
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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In this inspiring work, Bornstein profiles nine noteworthy social entrepreneurs who have worked for change and reform in areas around the world ranging from Bombay to Washington, D.C. Their stories are an engaging and encouraging read for those interested in international social reform.
(GEN332, $30.00)
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The Hungry Tide
• Amitav Ghosh
• LITERATURE
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A powerful, moving novel by the author of Glass Palace and Dancing in Cambodia, set in the Sundarban Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
(IDA258, $13.95)
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The Illustrated Kama Sutra, Ananga-Ranga, Perfumed Garden
• Richard Francis Burton
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An abridged edition of Richard Burton's original translation of the Kama Sutra (1883), Ananga-Ranga (1885) and The Perfumed Garden (1886).
(IDA221, $24.95)
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In Light of India
• Octavio Paz
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, who served for five years served as Mexico's ambassador to India, contemplates Indian history, society, literature and art in his inimitable style.
(IDA368, $15.00)
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In Praise of Krishna, Songs from the Bengali
• Edwar Dimock
• LITERATURE
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A collection of lyrics celebrating the love of Radha for the god Krishna, translated in collaboration with the poet Denise Levertov.
(IDA373, $16.00)
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In the Shadow of the Himalayas, A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908
• Kurt Meyer
• Pamela Deuel Meyer
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A collection of 144 remarkable documentary photographs of Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sikkim at the turn of the 20th century by John Claude White (1853-1918), the first British Political Officer to Sikkim.
(HML71, $65.00)
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India After Gandhi, The History of the World's Largest Democracy
• Ramachandra Guha
• HISTORY
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(IDA400, $34.95)
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India Briefing, A Transformative Fifty Years
• Marshall Bouton
• Philip Oldenburg
• HISTORY
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A primer on the political issues facing modern India.
(IDA204, $34.95)
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India in Mind
• Pankaj Mishra
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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For this wide-ranging anthology, novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra offers 25 selections of poetry, letters, fiction and travel accounts by such luminaries as Twain, Orwell, and Chatwin, with a particular focus on how outsiders have viewed India.
(IDA255, $14.00)
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India Modern, Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design
• Herbert J.M. Ypma
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A history of modern Indian design and its origins.
(IDA186, $29.95)
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India Modern, Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design (Pocket Edition)
• Herbert J.M. Ypma
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A pocket-history of modern Indian design and its origins.
(IDA187, $9.95)
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India Northeast Map
• Nelles
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A regional map (1:1,500,000) covering Northeast India in detail, including Arunchal Pradesh, Assam and adjoining Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Burma.
(IDA253, $10.95)
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India Unbound
• Gurcharan Das
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this pleasant and readable narrative, acclaimed journalist and author Gurcharan Das weaves his personal story into the larger context of India's recent history, discussing at length the economic and political issues facing the nation.
(IDA144, $15.95)
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India, A Concise History
• Francis Watson
• HISTORY
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An illustrated history in the fine series from Thames & Hudson.
(IDA139, $18.95)
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India, A History
• John Keay
• HISTORY
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A sweeping history of India from early settlement in the Indus Valley around 2000 B.C through ancient civilizations, Hindu, Christian and Muslim traditions, Mughal pomp, colonial rule, independence and the heady challenges of modern democracy.
(IDA175, $19.95)
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India, An Epic Journey
• Michael Wood
• HISTORY
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The companion book to historian Michael Wood's BBC documentary. Mixing history with his personal travels, Wood creates a deeply engaging and informative portrait of India, supported with visuals and photographs on nearly every page.
(IDA380, $35.00)
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India, Development and Participation
• Jean Dreze
• HISTORY
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Sen and Dreze explore the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India.
(IDA514, $45.00)
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India, Emerging Power
• Stephen Philip Cohen
• HISTORY
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A critical assessment of India as a world power by a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Cohen looks especially at the relations between India and Pakistan and China, as well as the United States.
(IDA263, $22.95)
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India, From Midnight to the Millennium
• Shashi Tharoor
• HISTORY
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Tharoor tackles religious differences, his upbringing in the south of India, his own experiences as a "Non-resident Indian," and a great deal of history in this sweeping, narrative history of the last 50 years.
(IDA106, $14.95)
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India, From Midnight To The Millennium and Beyond
• Shashi Tharoor
• HISTORY
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A portait of contemporary India.
(IDA515, $15.95)
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India: Kingdom of the Tiger
• Bruce Neibaur
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This dazzling film of tigers in the wild and pioneering conservation efforts was filmed on location at Bhandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.
(IDA248, $19.99)
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Indian Art
• Vidya Dehejia
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated, very readable history of Indian art and architecture. It considers the religious and intellectual contexts of three thousand years of Indian art, including the modern era.
(IDA185, $24.95)
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Indian Balm, Travels Amongst Fakirs And Fire Warriors
• Paul Hyland
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Hylands perceptive, witty account of travels along the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.
(IDA287, $14.95)
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The Indian Bride
• Karin Fossum
• MYSTERY
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Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.
(IDA396, $23.00)
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Indian Embers
• Lady Rosamund Lawrence
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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First published in 1949, this travelogue is a classic account of a journey through India.
(IDA54, $22.95)
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Indian Subcontinent Map
• Nelles
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A map of all of India as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and parts of Tibet, China and Burma, at a scale of 1:4,500,000.
(IDA271, $10.95)
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Indian Summer
• Will Randall
• LITERATURE
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Will Randall thought teaching in an inner-London comprehensive was a tough job. But that was nothing compared to the next assignment: saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona. Learning as much as he is teaches.
(IDA366, $13.95)
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Indian Summer, The Secret History of the End of an Empire
• Alex Von Tunzelmann
• HISTORY
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Von Tunzelmann sets her tale of well-born Dickie Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, his wife Edwina, the attentive Nehu and other personalities of the time against the dramatic backdrop of Indian independence.
(IDA385, $30.00)
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Indira
• Katherine Frank
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A controversial biography of Indira Gandhi.
(IDA199, $35.00)
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The Inheritance of Loss
• Kiran Desai
• LITERATURE
• NEW
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Kiran Desai's luminous family saga, a tale of East and West, shifts between life in a once grand household in northern India and that of the cook's son, struggling to get by in immigrant New York. Desai illuminates the aspirations, delusions and reality of both worlds.
(IDA303, $14.00)
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Insight Guide Sri Lanka
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated overview of Sri Lanka with essays on its attractions, history and culture complemented by many pictures and maps.
(SRL02, $22.95)
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Interpreter of Maladies
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• LITERATURE
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In these nine stories, Lahiri captures the experience of first-generation Indian-Americans as their marriages shift and fall apart, and their families are threatened by miscarriages, infidelity, and the trials of assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
(IDA243, $13.95)
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An Introduction to Hinduism
• Gavin D. Flood
• RELIGION
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A comprehensive overview of the Hinduism, from the basic principles and tenets of the religion to modern variations and controversies.
(IDA315, $25.99)
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Jaipur Nama, Tales from the Pink City
• Giles Tillotson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Three centuries of history in the city of Jaipur Nama are chronicled by diverse residents and visitors, presenting an energetic portrait of the passions and dramas of everything from the palaces to the people.
(IDA339, $14.00)
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Jejuri, A Poem
• Arun Kolatkar
• Amit Chaudhuri
• LITERATURE
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Kolatkar's marvelous epic poem, which won the Commonwealth Prize in 1976, recounts a pilgrimage to Jejuri in his home state of Maharashtra.
(IDA286, $12.95)
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Jewel in the Crown
• Paul Scott
• LITERATURE
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The first book in Scott's addictive Raj Quartet, set in British India in 1942, is a rousing, psychologically complex tale of English colonial rule.
(IDA66, $20.00)
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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
• Jael Silliman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly yet sentimental account of the longstanding female Jewish community in Calcutta.
(IDA244, $19.95)
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A Journey in Ladakh
• Andrew Harvey
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The vivid account of a 1981 journey by a young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions in remote Ladakh.
(HML15, $18.95)
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The Jungle Books
• Rudyard Kipling
• LITERATURE
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Mowgli, an Indian boy adopted by wolves, learns the ways of the jungle as he grows up in the company of cobras, panthers, bears and tigers. Kipling set his adventures in what is now Kanha National Park.
(IDA313, $4.95)
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Ka, Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
• Roberto Calasso
• Tim Parks
• LITERATURE
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A challenging collection of stories based on traditional Hindu myths.
(IDA168, $16.00)
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Kali's Child, The Mystical and Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
• Jeffrey J. Kripal
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly analysis of the life and thought of a 19th century Bengali mystic and modern saint.
(IDA112, $32.00)
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Karma Cola, Marketing the Mystical East
• Gita Mehta
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A witty, often poignant satire on the exploitation of both Westerners and Indians through tourism.
(IDA136, $13.95)
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Kim
• Rudyard Kipling
• LITERATURE
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The enduring tale of Kimball O'Hara, an orphan boy who, through happenstance, travels the Grand Trunk Road with a Tibetan Lama.
(IDA116, $27.99)
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Kite's Eye View India, Between Earth and Sky
• Nicolas Chorier
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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These breathtaking low aerial images of India, its people, landscapes and cities, were taken ingeniously by attaching a camera to a kite.
(IDA519, $49.95)
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The Land of Naked People, Encounters with Stone Age Islanders
• Madhusree Mukerjee
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Mukerjee reveals a fascinating world nearly gone in the Andamens -- a place where the Great Andamese, Onge, Jarawa, and Sentinelese peoples once lived in near isolation.
(IDA525, $24.00)
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The Life of Hinduism
• John Hawley
• Vasudha Narayanan
• RELIGION
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A series of essays that present Hinduism as a vibrant and vital religion, with emphasis on the multifaceted world of Hindu worship and the identity issues of Hindus faced with globalization.
(IDA374, $25.95)
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Little Buddha
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Bertolucci's luminescent film interweaves the story of a journey from Seattle to Bhutan with the life of Siddharta.
(HML74, $14.99)
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Lives of Indian Images
• Richard H. Davis
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An insightful study of how Indian religious images take on lives of their own.
(IDA91, $33.95)
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Lonely Planet Bangladesh
• Richard Plunkett
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series with 40 sketch maps, a selection of color photographs and a 100-page introduction to the region.
(ASA38, $25.99)
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Lonely Planet Goa
• Bryn Thomas
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series.
(IDA219, $17.99)
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Lonely Planet Hindi & Urdu Phrasebook
• Richard Somers Delacy
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy phrasebook for Hindi and Urdu basics.
(IDA82, $8.99)
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Lonely Planet India
• Tony Wheeler
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive practical guide to India geared for independent travelers.
(IDA44, $29.99)
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Lonely Planet Northeast India
• Mark Elliott
• Joseph Bindloss
• Lindsay Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
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This guide covers easternmost India in the hallmark Lonely Planet style, covering Calcutta, Sikkim, West Bengal and Orissa along with the newly opened and little-visited northeastern states.
(IDA518, $22.99)
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Lonely Planet South India
• Lonely Planet
• Lonely Planet Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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This practical guide to South India features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(IDA188, $24.99)
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Love and Longing in Bombay
• Vikram Chandra
• LITERATURE
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Five transfixing stories in five different genres, united in setting and authorship by the contemporary wizard of the human condition, Vikram Chandra.
(IDA216, $13.95)
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Love Delhi
• Love Travel Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This beautifully made, affectionate guide, packaged in its own satchel of locally woven raw silk and printed on hand-made paper, captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions.
(IDA403, $40.00)
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Love in a Different Climate, Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
• Jeremy Seabrook
• RELIGION
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Sexual identify and politics in India.
(IDA113, $25.00)
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Mahabhrata
• William Buck
• B. A. Van Nooten
• LITERATURE
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An introduction and retelling of one of the greatest Hindu epics.
(IDA167, $21.95)
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Maharanis, A Family Saga of Four Queens
• Lucy Moore
• HISTORY
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Moore captures the passion, complexities and power of four influential women in this family saga covering the history of India from 1911 to Independence.
(IDA309, $16.00)
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Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles
• Ved Mehta
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A vivid examination of the life and work of Gandhi by novelist Ved Mehta.
(IDA21, $25.00)
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Mahatma Gandhi, Nonviolent Power in Action
• Dennis Dalton
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Featuring a new preface by the author, this book moves from the birth of Gandhi's method of nonviolent resistance in South Africa to an in-depth analysis of two of his signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement of 1930 and his historic Calcutta fast of 1947.
(IDA536, $24.50)
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The Mango Season
• Amulya Malladi
• LITERATURE
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A marvelously evocative novel of life in South India, in which the prodigal daughter returns home. The pleasure and importance of food in the novel (which includes recipes) underscores the tension between modern and traditional.
(IDA257, $13.95)
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Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh
• David Fraser
• Barbara Fraser
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An abundantly illustrated study of the textiles of the Chin peoples of southern and eastern Asia. With more than 600 color illustrations.
(ASA46, $60.00)
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Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found
• Suketu Mehta
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The tale of the author who, after a 21-year sojourn in New York, returns to his native Bombay, "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India."
(IDA252, $16.95)
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Media and the British Empire
• Chandrika Kaul
• HISTORY
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A collection of scholary articles.
(GBR680, $75.00)
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A Meeting by the River
• Christopher Isherwood
• LITERATURE
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Two brothers meeting in India, one a bisexual capitalist and the other a Hindu monk.
(IDA114, $16.95)
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Miles from Nowhere, A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
• Barbara Savage
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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